Featuring Georgia Evans
Founder, Village Care Project
Georgia with one of Village Care Project’s water filters.
Georgia Evans is inspired and determined. As the Founder of Village Care Project, she is focused on bringing community size water filters to villages throughout Africa who desperately need clean drinking water.
Georgia, who owns a copying company and is a photographer, was first inspired to her work on water issues when on a wildlife photo safari in Africa. In preparation for that trip, she researched the conditions of the villages and was struck by the lack of clean drinking water in those communities. The villagers, mostly women, were hauling water from basically any stream bed or pond they could find in their arid regions. But that unclean water was the source of disease and other concerns in the villages.
Georgia had a simple solution -- community size water filters. She bought two of them for her first trip and shipped them to Africa. Then she hired guides and personally delivered them to a Masai village in Africa. She demonstrated to the villagers how to use the filters for clean drinking water. She also added mosquito bed nets to address the issue of malaria in these villages.
Georgia’s concern for the people of Africa and her idea to bring community size water filters to the villages initiated her “Into Africa” series of trips. She brought community sized water filters first to the Masai villages and then to others in Kenya, Tanzania, and other areas of Africa.
Since beginning her Africa based work, Georgia has been back to four more villages and formerly established the Village Care Project, a non profit organization, to continue this work. She is planning another trip to Africa in January 2020 to bring more water filters to more communities.
In addition, as a photographer, Georgia has taken numerous, remarkable wildlife and landscape photos in Africa that she sells in support of the Village Care Project. Many of her photos are featured in the GLBL MRKT, a collaboration between G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice and Grace Place Church and located in Berthoud, CO.
Georgia is a tremendous example of how inspiration, research, and response to real and immediate needs can make a positive impact -- in Africa and around the world.